Two NEET candidates can no longer use their OBC-B certificates after state removed the category Kolkata: Two Murshidabad students, who cleared NEET UG 2026, have moved Calcutta High Court ahead of their counselling as their applications were under OBC-B, a category the new state govt removed on May 18. They have moved the single bench…
Kolkata: The judicial commission, led by former IPS officer K Jayaraman, visited Bangla Academy and Charukala Parishad on Wednesday to probe allegations of large-scale corruption across departments under the information and cultural affairs department.Jayaraman said they spoke to officials and staffers, and examined files and documents. Multiple complaints have been filed against former information and…
Kolkata: The Bengal govt on Wednesday passed two legislations that proposed to increase the number of Kolkata Municipal Corporation wards from 144 to 209, and Howrah Municipal Corporation wards from 50 to 68. Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari assured MLAs that that no norm was being flouted during the process, as the opposition has alleged.The two…
Shantiniketan building on Harish Mukherjee Road Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) buildings department has found an ‘illegal’ structure atop Shantiniketan, a residential building on Harish Mukherjee Road reportedly owned or co-owned by Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, his family, or his company.According to a civic official, the illegal construction detected during an on-site inspection a…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the cancellation of all the other backward classes (OBC) A and B certificates issued after 2010.The division bench of Justice Rajasekhar Mantha and Justice Anuj Singh gave the order after the state removed OBC B by a notification on May 18. They had also withdrawn from the…
Kolkata: Stumped by the higher education department’s “unprecedented” demand for detailed information on the past three years’ executive council (EC) meetings, professors at Jadavpur University (JU) said it appeared to be an attempt by the govt to get back at the institute for “raising various uncomfortable questions”, including the reason behind the EC meeting not…
Kolkata: Members of Nationalist Students’ Front (NSF), a right-wing students’ organisation, plans to screen Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘Bengal Files’, based on the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings, at the Triguna Sen auditorium at JU on Sunday. Left-leaning students’ organisations objected to the screening, saying the film could disrupt the campus harmony, and urged the university authorities to…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police are investigating several cases in which cyber fraudsters are pretending to be bank relationship managers and targeting the fixed deposits of retired people. The cyber cell at Lalbazar took over one such case on Tuesday.In this case, a senior citizen was cheated of Rs 4,74,161 after a fraudster posed as a bank…
Kolkata: Kolkata Police will set up a Divisional Crime Record Bureau, or DCRB, in every police division of the city to improve digital crime record management and coordination.The move follows guidance from the Union home ministry under the Interoperable Criminal Justice System. The DCRB has been modelled on the National Crime Records Bureau and the…
Kolkata: Twenty-six students of Park Institution were discharged from RG Kar medical college on Wednesday. Sources said that the rest of the seven are fine. They will also be sent home in a day or two. The students from the school had fallen ill, leading to their hospitalisation. While influenza A infection has been found…
